Theyre still going on in the court behind me. You know, Business Owners are testifying this afternoon about how their businesses have been devastated by the construction out there. Lifeguards telling stories about how they got rashes from the contamination in that pond of the basin but the government says the shut down is costing taxpayers about 125,000 a day, and theyre asking the court to let them get back to work while they try to figure out what happened here. Absolutely not. If theres a problem, you need to stop, figure it out and do something thats going to work. Reporter residents and locals not buying the governments explanation that they need to complete the dunes project, have everything in place before they know for sure how the system works there. Theyre stumped. Reporter stumped for now admitted an army corps of engineer project manager and theyre hydraulics expert saying, theyve seen this kind of prolonged ponding before working a similar project in sea isle. And it all w
Jessica, thank you. 4 30, we have snow overnight in parts of the area. Heres one example. You can see the flakes swirling. In Delaware County the snow actually accumulated on cars at the Shopping Center in havertown. You can see snow on the grassy areas. The fast moving snow showers now open the doors to two days of dangerously cold air. And will you feel the chilly change as you step out the door. Nbc10s Pamela Osborne is live this morning at the station. There you are. Reporter yes, definitely the type of morning where you want to put on the extra layers and take them off throughout the day. This type of weather you dont want to be out long unless you absolutely have to. We talked to these guys here and theyre going to warm up in a little bit. What in you dont have a place to go. Its a very big concern for leaders across communities. The Salvation Army is under a code blue emergency. They only goes into this type of alert in extreme weather. Where the windchill factor is 20 degrees o
The coldest temperatures weve seen since last winter. Weve issued a first alert because it will feel like in the teens today. Early morning snow. Check out this wintry scene along the Atlantic City expressway. This is the eastbound lane. Taking it a little slower than normal. And still streaking. Flyers make it ten wins in a row after a win out west. The team hasnt won this many in a row in more than 30 years. Announcer nbc10 news starts now. Lets go flyers. Just after 5 30. Good morning. Welcome to nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. And im vai sikahema. Were under a first alert this morning, to help you get ready for the cold air. Right to meteorologist bill henley with the nbc10 first alert weather. Bill . Its cold enough for snow showers, were seeing light snow showers overnight tonight. And were still tracking a few in new jersey right up through cumberland county. And north cape may. Those wont last. Theyll mainly be dry during the day. But i can rule out another isolated showe
Wilmington, during the archl, this closer to 40 miles an hour. This is the cold air dumping into the area. These numbers are falling down to 5 degrees for the windchill in reading. Weve managed to drop out of the 20s for whirl. Now that is sweeping across the area. During the day today. Most areas will look like that. With temperatures in the Single Digits. And since we went on the air at 4 room 30 this morning. 27 degrees in new jersey. And Lehigh Valley. 23 degrees. The suburbs will be in the 20s all day long. But its going to be middle 20s at best for the suburbs. 23 degrees with the bitter wind blowing. In the Lehigh Valley. Just 28 degrees in delaware. A cold day. Ill break it down, hourbyhour. Ill show you when were going to see a warmup when i come back in ten minutes. First, Jessica Boyington is watching your first alert traffic. Starting off near 95. No big problems on the bridges and traffic. Speaking of 95, seeing delays on the southbound side. Might be partially because of
Ov overnight. You can see the snow is falling. Lets talk about the dangerous cold. Pamela is live this morning. Lets first begin with glenn hurricane schwartz. He is tracking this arctic air. Yeah. The temperatures themselves dont even tell the whole story. This is still 25 degrees below average just temperature wise. But on top of that look at the winds gusting 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour across the area. So it feels like it is 8 in philadelphia and wilmington, 4 in coatsville and 2 in allentown and 8 in trenton. Those numbers are not going up during the day. Why . Because look at the air in pittsburgh. Even colder than ours. Chicago feels like 17 below. Look at the arrows. That air is headed this way. It wont be quite as fierce as the time it gets here. We have more and more arctic air feeding in. Now, after the arctic air is trying to leave and moisture comes in you add up to some snow at least for a period of time. We have a first alert for Lehigh Valley and even philadelphia itself fr